Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".