Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.