I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.