Great Throughts Treasury

"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions."

"Humanity cannot be measured by what it is; only by what it is trying to become."

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

"The classroom should be an entrance to the world, not an escape from it."

"Intelligence recognizes what happened. Genius recognizes what will happen."

"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. "

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."