America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?