Idlers Do Not Make History: They Suffer

...do Not The Bewitching Power Of All Studies Lie In That They Continually Open Up To Us New, Unsuspected Horizons, Not Yet Understood, Which Entice Us To Proceed Further And Further In The Penetration Of What Appears At First Sight Only In Vague Outline?

Waste Of Time Is The Leading Feature Of Our Present Education. Not Only Are We Taught A Mass Of Rubbish, But What Is Not Rubbish Is Taught So As To Make Us Waste Over It As Much Time As Possible.

The Moral Sense Is A Natural Faculty In Us Like The Sense Of Smell Or Of Touch.

The Immense And Ever Increasing Sums Which The State Wrings From The People Are Never Enough For It; It Mortgages The Income Of Future Generations, And Steers Resolutely Toward Bankruptcy.

My Brother Could Not Write About Trifles. Even In Society He Became Animated Only When Some Serious Discussion Was Engaged In, And He Complained Of Feeling 'a Dull Pain In The Brain'--a Physical Pain, As He Used To Say--when He Was With People Who Cared Only For Small Talk.