Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

War can protect; it cannot create.

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

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

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.

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.