There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.