For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.