That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

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

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

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.

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.