“It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.”

“And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”

“A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.”

“A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens.”

“In a country of ideas, consciousness is its' citizen.”

“If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.”