Of All Studies, The One He Would

Some Day Science May Have The Existence Of Mankind In Its Power, And The Human Race Commit Suicide, By Blowing Up The World.

Society Is Immoral And Immortal; It Can Afford To Commit Any Kind Of Folly, And Indulge In Any Sort Of Vice; It Cannot Be Killed, And The Fragments That Survive Can Always Laugh At The Dead.

The Chief Wonder Of Education Is That It Does Not Ruin Everybody Concerned In It, Teachers And Taught.

A Period Of About Twelve Years Measured The Beat Of The Pendulum. After The Declaration Of Independence, Twelve Years Had Been Needed To Create An Efficient Constitution; Another Twelve Years Of Energy Brought A Reaction Against The Government Then Created; A Third Period Of Twelve Years Was Ending In A Sweep Toward Still Greater Energy; And Already A Child Could Calculate The Result Of A Few More Such Returns.

Of All Studies, The One He Would Rather Have Avoided Was That Of His Own Mind. He Knew No Tragedy So Heartrending As Introspection.