“Education is largely the acquisition of the accumulated prejudices of man’s past—often a serious handicap for the influencing of man’s future.”

Warns that schooling can freeze old biases instead of freeing thought · Journal, 10 March 1933

• Education
• Prejudice
• Thought

“If, in an hour of noble elation, I could write a bit of glorified prose that would soften the stern ways of life, and bring to our fevered days some courage, dignity and poise—I should be well-content.”

States his modest hope for what writing might do for ordinary lives · Journal, 1922

• Courage
• Purpose
• Writing

“Let me drive out of myself the universal madness to be elsewhere in search of the joy of life, for the joy of life resides within oneself.”

Argues that contentment is an inner discipline, not a change of scene · Journal, on remaining in Terre Haute

• Contentment
• Joy
• Place