A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.