All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.