The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

What seems new is only new to us.