There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.