The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.