An explanation which demonstrates the impossibility of knowing is about as satisfactory as one which imparts the knowledge desired. But there are some who call everything incomprehensible which they do not comprehend.
Many children and nearly all girls are educated by equivocations and taught truths by means of falsehoods. What have the teachers to expect when their pupils discover this fact?
There are a good many branches of education about which it is sufficient for most to know that they exist.
That moral strength is alone real which has been acquired by repeated exposure to temptation and repeated successful resistance.
We never fully acknowledge to ourselves how very human we are. We each secretly think that there is something in us not shared by any other man or woman.