My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.