Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.