Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Life is given us as a passion.

I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.