The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Depression is rage spread thin.

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.