Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdain - under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities, and a disgust for cheapjacks. We ough…

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical eq…

I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people.

No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive b…

As man advances in civilisation, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend hi…