Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.