A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.