It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.