This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.