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

Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

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

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.

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

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.