Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?