A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.

All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.