The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

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

There is no nature at an instant.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.