The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.