“Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.” HumansHeartSecretVirtueVictimVicesDrivenStealingGuiltyDevotedHuman HeartInfamy Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.” ThinkingShouldHumansMaySaidImportantPassionInterestModernIntellectualInstitutionsCuriositySatisfactionWelfareCharacteristicsConsiderationApplicationDevotedRulingOutstandingCultivationModern TimesImmediacyIntellectual LifeRuling Passion Author:Abraham Flexner
“Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.” WorldShouldHumansHeartHandsHoursGuiltPityInsanityRescueDevotedDistressHuman HeartGodlike Book:Lectures and Annual Reports on Education Source: Lectures and Annual Reports on Education