A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!

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.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.