You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

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.

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.