Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.