One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.