We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.