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.

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.

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

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.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.