Remember, our conduct is influenced not by our experience but by our expectations.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young