That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.