All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them. - Thomas Carlyle

Instruction, that mysterious communing of Wisdom with Ignorance, is no longer an indefinable tentative process, requiring a study of individual aptitudes, and a perpetual variation of means and methods, to attain the same end; but a secure, universal, straightforward business, to be conducted in the gross, by proper mechanism.

A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.