We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
The future is today.