I Was Taught The Alphabet By My

My Father Followed, During Most Of His Life, The Precarious Occupation Of A Country School Teacher.

If My Impressions Are Correct, Our Educational Planing Mill Cuts Down All The Knots Of Genius, And Reduces The Best Of The Men Who Go Through It To Much The Same Standard.

Until I Was Four Years Old I Lived In The House Of My Paternal Grandfather, About Two Miles From The Pretty Little Village Of Wallace, At The Mouth Of The River Of That Name.

Ten Decimal Places Of π Are Sufficient To Give The Circumference Of The Earth To A Fraction Of An Inch, And Thirty Decimal Places Would Give The Circumference Of The Visible Universe To A Quantity Imperceptible To The Most Powerful Microscope.

So Far As The Economic Condition Of Society And The General Mode Of Living And Thinking Were Concerned, I Might Claim To Have Lived In The Time Of The American Revolution.