For The Educated, The Authority Of Science

No Subject Of Study Is More Important Than Reading…all Other Intellectual Powers Depend On It.

The Book, Like The Bicycle, Is A Perfect Form.

If It Were Possible To Talk To The Unborn, One Could Never Explain To Them How It Feels To Be Alive, For Life Is Washed In The Speechless Real.

The Sole Justification Of Teaching, Of The School Itself, Is That The Student Comes Out Of It Able To Do Something He Could Not Do Before. I Say Do And Not Know, Because Knowledge That Doesn't Lead To Doing Something New Or Doing Something Better Is Not Knowledge At All.

Since It Is Seldom Clear Whether Intellectual Activity Denotes A Superior Mode Of Being Or A Vital Deficiency, Opinion Swings Between Considering Intellect A Privilege And Seeing It As A Handicap