The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!