When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.