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.

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

A good teacher is a determined person

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

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.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.