He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.
That great dust-heap called 'history'.
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Libraries are not made, they grow.
There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven
It is the Mass that matters.
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely.
Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.
The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.
I'm a historian in my own mind.