If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. ↗
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? ↗
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. ↗
When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there. ↗