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

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one