Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

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.

Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.