• Augustine on Truth

    Let every good and true Christian understand that wherever truth may be found, it belongs to his Master.

  • Buechner on Teaching

    To teach a class, whether you do it well or badly, is to achieve fifty minutes of self-forgetfulness. More even than the long summer vacations, it is the principle side-benefit that the profession offers.

  • Ephraim Chambers On Taste and Judgment

    To have a taste, is to give things their real value, to be touched with the good, to be shocked with the ill; not to be dazzled with false lustres, but in spite of all colours, and everything that might deceive or amuse, to judge soundly.