Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.