The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.