Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.
When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.
Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.