I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

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.