Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

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

If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.