Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.