The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.