Pot always just made me sleepy.
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material. . . Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably) as a rhetorical device. Such cases do not function as speculations in the pejorative sense - as silly stories that provide insight into complex mechanisms - but rather as idealized illustrations to exemplify a difficult point of theory. (Other fields, like philosophy and the law, use such conjectural cases as a standard device.
Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.
Ain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.
The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.