It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

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.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

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.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.