Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.