[Benjamin Peirce’s] lectures were not easy to follow. They were never carefully prepared. The work with which he rapidly covered the blackboard was very illegible, marred with frequent erasures, and not infrequent mistakes (he worked...

The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is not teaching. The expression of facts that are in one’s mind...

I have witness the stars brighterthan a poet can create a simpleton world. Shall we write ‘until death do us part.

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.