Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

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.

[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.