The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

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

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.