It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

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.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.