That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Literature is eavesdropping.

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.