Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Error itself may be happy chance.
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.