You Can't Wish A Body

What's The Use Of Inventing A Better System As Long As There Just Aren't Enough Folks With Sense To Go Around?

The Teachers Of Small Children Are Paid More Than They Were, But Still Far Less Than The Importance Of Their Work Deserves, And They Are Still Regarded By The Unenlightened Majority As Insignificant Compared To Those Who Impart Information To Older Children And Adolescents, A Class Of Pupils Which, In The Nature Of Things, Is Vastly More Able To Protect Its Own Individuality From The Character Of The Teacher.

Everyone Bowed To That Unwritten Law Of Family Life Which Ordains That, In The Long Run, Everyone Submerges His Personal Preference In The Effort To Conform To That Of The Member Of The Circle Who Complains Most Loudly And Is Most Difficult To Satisfy.

One Reason We Haven't Any National Art Is Because We Have Too Much Magnificence. All Our Capacity For Admiration Is Used Up On The Splendor Of Palace-like Railway Stations And Hotels. Our National Tympanum Is So Deafened By That Blare Of Sumptuousness That We Have No Ears For The Still, Small Voice Of Beauty.

History Is Worth Reading When It Tells Us Truly What The Attitude Toward Life Was In The Past.