“I think modern education over-emphasizes the intellect. I suppose that comes from the scientific trend of the times. You cannot obtain a useful citizen if you only develop his intellect. We take children from their parents because these cannot give them an intellectual training. So far, good. But we fail to give them that training in character which parents alone can give. Home influence, as Grace Aguilar conceived it " where has it gone? It strikes me that this is a grave danger for the future. We are rearing up a brood of crafty egoists, a generation whose earliest recollections are those of getting something for nothing from the State.I am inclined to trace our present social unrest to this over-valuation of the intellect. It hardens the heart and blights all generous impulses. What is going to replace the home, Mr. Keith?”

“I think modern education over-emphasizes the intellect. I suppose that comes from the scientific trend of the times. You cannot obtain a useful citizen if you only develop his intellect. We take children from their parents because these cannot give them an intellectual training. So far, good. But we fail to give them that training in character which parents alone can give. Home influence, as Grace Aguilar conceived it " where has it gone? It strikes me that this is a grave danger for the future. We are rearing up a brood of crafty egoists, a generation whose earliest recollections are those of getting something for nothing from the State.I am inclined to trace our present social unrest to this over-valuation of the intellect. It hardens the heart and blights all generous impulses. What is going to replace the home, Mr. Keith?”

“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.”

“The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.”

“Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.”

“You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.”

“A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.”

“The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.”

“A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.”

“It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.”

“Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.”

“It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.”