Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

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.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.