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).