The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. It is the one un-american act that could most easily defeat us.
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth.
She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction. Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and sadness are incompatible.