Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.
This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
Life is a daring adventure or nothing.
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.