Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.