No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.