No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?