“ As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done. John Jay Chapman
“ Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. John Jay Chapman
“ Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. John Jay Chapman
“ The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. John Jay Chapman
“ We cannot hand our faith to one another. ... Even in the Middle Ages when faith was theoretically uniform it was always practically individual. John Jay Chapman
“ Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity. John Jay Chapman
