There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push and educational message.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.