"One cool judgement is worth a thousand..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson

“It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.”

“No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know”

“I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”

“But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]”

“No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.”

“Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.”

“It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.”

“We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.”

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”