Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget i… - Samuel Butler

The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains.

A man can stand being told that he must submit to a severe surgical operation, or that he has some disease which will shortly kill him, or that he will be a cripple or blind for the rest of his life; dreadful as such tidings must be, we do not find that they unnerve the greatest number of mankind; most men, indeed, go coolly enough even to be hanged, but the strongest quail before financial ruin, and the better men they are, the more complete, as a general rule, is their prostration.