These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.