None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

What seems new is only new to us.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

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.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.