We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

The future never just happened. It was created.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.