The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

A good teacher is a determined person

A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.