To Rejoice In Life, To

It Has Always Seemed Strange To Me That In Our Endless Discussions About Education So Little Stress Is Laid On The Pleasure Of Becoming An Educated Person, The Enormous Interest It Adds To Life. To Be Able To Be Caught Up Into The World Of Thought-that Is To Be Educated.

A People's Literature Is The Great Textbook For Real Knowledge Of Them. The Writings Of The Day Show The Quality Of The People As No Historical Reconstruction Can.

When Faith Is Supported By Facts Or By Logic It Ceases To Be Faith.

The Suffering Of A Soul That Can Suffer Greatly -- That And Only That, Is Tragedy.

In Every Civilization, Life Grows Easier. Men Grow Lazier In Consequence. We Have A Picture Of What Happened To The Individual Greek. (i Cannot Look At History, Or At Any Human Action, Except As I Look At The Individual.) The Greeks Had Good Food, Good Witty Talk, Pleasant Dinner Parties; And They Were Content. When The Individual Man Had Reached That Condition In Athens, When The Thought Not Of Giving To The State But Of What The State Could Give To Him, Athens' Freedom Was Doomed.