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

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

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.