By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in..

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation..

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Do for yourself, for no one else will..

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind..

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God..

You don't get nothing and like it..

It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time….

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset..

When you start somewhere, you've started..

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid….

Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching..

If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the teaching is poor. For example many le….

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at..

It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work..

Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively. It is thus a teaching devic….

Politics is cyclical..

The public makes a hit..

At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries recogni….

It's not how much you make, it's how much you save..