An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

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

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

Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.