Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Heartbreak is life educating us.