History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.