Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

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

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.