The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Our best chance for happiness is education.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides in the flowing, and gives continuity and dignity to human life.

I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.

A classic is a book that remains in print