Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one read more

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured read more

. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold read more

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual read more

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.