It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

The motive of success is not enough.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.