The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.