Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.

People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.