Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.

The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

The many become one and are increased by one.

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.