All experience is an arch, to build upon.

You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

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