In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.