Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.
Instruction is important.
Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc. , that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.
Hunger not to have, but to be
Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?
God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
I believe in traditional marriage.
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
I am simply a 'book drunkard. ' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.