Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I s...ee [clearly] that no American should come to Europe under 30 years of age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suppose that an inhabitant of Venus or Mars were to contemplate us from the height of a mountain, and watch the little black speck...s that we form in space, as we come and go in the streets and squares of our towns. Would the mere sight of our movements, our buildings, machines, and canals, convey to him any precise idea of our morality, intellect, our manner of thinking and loving, and hoping--in a word, of our real and intimate self? All he could do, like ourselves when we gaze at the hive, would be to take note of some facts that seem very surprising; and from these facts to deduce conclusions probably no less erroneous, no less uncertain, than those we choose to form concerning the bee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »