Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.