A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

The heart has a deeper intelligence than the mind ever will.

[T]he very color of the air in the place I was born was different, the smell of the earth was special, redolent with memories of my parents.

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise.

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.