To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

Civilisation is a conspiracy.

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.

I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.