The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.

Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.