of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

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.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.