Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

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.

No institution will be better than the institutor.