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

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.