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

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.