The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.