Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

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

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.