Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.

However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.