Henry James Chews More Than He Bites

Teachers Affect Eternity; No One Can Tell Where Their Influence Stops.

Probably The Institution Of Marriage Had Its Origin In Love Of Property. Both Men And Women Were United In This--that Whatever They Loved Best, They Wished To Possess. The Usual Theory Holds That The Communal System Would Not Permit The Gratification Of This Desire At The Expense Of Communal Rights, And That Therefore Men Were Driven To Gratify Their Passion By Purchasing Or By Capturing Women From Neighboring And Hostile Tribes.

The Gothic Is Singular In This; One Seems Easily At Home In The Renaissance; One Is Not Too Strange In The Byzantine; As For The Roman, It Is Ourselves; And We Could Walk Blindfolded Through Every Chink And Cranny Of The Greek Mind; All These Styles Seem Modern When We Come Close To Them; But The Gothic Gets Away.

Nothing Is Easier Than To Teach Historical Method, But, When Learned, It Has Little Use.

No Man Can Instruct More Than Half-a-dozen Students At Once. The Whole Problem Of Education Is One Of Its Cost In Money.