Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.