To spend life for something which outlasts it.

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

We are mere bundles of habits.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

If it works, it's true.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?