The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

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

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.