My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.