Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

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

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.