Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.