As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.