In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.