“It is really a matter for wonder how rational intercourse through the medium of language can be so complete and easy as it is, when the ideas conveyed by the words are so different in each person.”

Observing the remarkable success of language despite differences in individual meaning · Address, The Necessity of Poetry, 1917

• Poetry
• Truth

“I myself would risk a good deal on the chance of meeting Henry Bradley.”

Expressing affection through a characteristically personal hope of reunion · Memoir of Henry Bradley

• Death
• Friendship
• Hope

“To educate means to draw out, and if we are to seek to draw out the human mind we must first have some clear notion as to what the mind is like.”

Presenting education as the development of capacities already within us · Address, Democracy and Education, 1916

• Childhood
• Truth