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.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.