Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

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.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.