“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

“Perhaps even when I am dead, some browser in libraries will come upon me, and, seeing that I was not altogether unworthy, will resurrect me from the dust of things forgotten.”

A quiet hope for posterity rather than present fame · Journal

• Memory
• Posterity
• Writers

“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