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

Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

War can protect; it cannot create.