I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?

T. H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist [Thomas Henry Huxley]

Speech, Johns Hopkins University opening ceremony (12 Sep 1876)

Quoted by Hubert Humphrey at the commencement address at the Holton-Arms School (Jun 1967).