Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.