The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us