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.

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.