Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.

I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.