The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

Education is preparation to live completely.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.