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

Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.