If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.