It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

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.

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.

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.