Silence Alone Is Respectable And Respected. I

No Man, However Strong, Can Serve Ten Years As Schoolmaster, Priest, Or Senator, And Remain Fit For Anything Else. All The Dogmatic Stations In Life Have The Effect Of Fixing A Certain Stiffness Of Attitude Forever, As Though They Mesmerised The Subject.

Throughout Human History The Waste Of Mind Has Been Appalling, And, As This Story Is Meant To Show, Society Has Conspired To Promote It. No Doubt The Teacher Is The Worst Criminal, But The World Stands Behind Him And Drags The Student From His Course.

The Less A Tourist Knows, The Fewer Mistakes He Need Make, For He Will Not Expect Himself To Explain Ignorance.

The Social Side Of Washington Was To Be Taken For Granted As Three-fourths Of Existence. Politics And Reform Became The Detail, And Waltzing The Profession

From Earliest Childhood The Boy Was Accustomed To Feel That, For Him, Life Was Double. Winter And Summer, Town And Country, Law And Liberty, Were Hostile, And The Man Who Pretended They Were Not, Was In His Eyes A Schoolmaster -- That Is, A Man Employed To Tell Lies To Little Boys.