Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties. Many people live alone and like it, but most of them live alone and look it. If, almost on the day of their landings, our ancestors founded schools and endowed colleges, what obligations do not rest upon us, living under circumstances so much more favorable, both for providing and for using the means of education. You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think. A rule is a screw that can only be tightened.
All rules have exceptions.
No one knows better how nightmarishly frustrating bureaucracy can be than those trapped inside it. A clash of doctrines is not a disaster it is an opportunity. We can't do for another without at the same time doing for ourselves. Every mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother, and every woman extends backward into her mother and forward into her daughter. The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.