Ignorance is not an extension of time

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

Strength is the outcome of need.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.