Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

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.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.