Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.