Of All Studies, The One

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.

Wild As Man Was, And Disgusting As The More Degraded Tribes And Communities Were, The Best Of Them, And All Those From Which Further Advance Came, Were Marked By Good Qualities, Or They Could Never Have Risen To A Higher Stage.

I Have Written Too Much History To Have Faith In It; And If Anyone Thinks I'm Wrong, I Am Inclined To Agree With Him.

The Whole Fabric Of Society Will Go To Wrack If We Really Lay Hands Of Reform On Our Rotten Institutions. From Top To Bottom The Whole System Is A Fraud, All Of Us Know It, Laborers And Capitalists Alike, And All Of Us Are Consenting Parties To It.

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.