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.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.