The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.