The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

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

The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.