The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day. It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern

Life is a verb

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now