It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.