I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.