Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.