I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

There are no new ideas about female education.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.