1. “The actual journey may have been quite different, but the actual journey has no interest for education.”
2. “Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he.”
3. “No man can instruct more than half a dozen students at once.”
4. “Venice would be a fine city if it were drained.”
5. “Every friend in power is a friend lost.”
6. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
7. “Let us have peace.”
8. “The English mind was one-sided, eccentric, systematically unsystematic and logically illogical.”
9. “Gold-bugs.”
10. “He was an acrobat, with a dwarf on his back, crossing a chasm on a slack-rope, and commonly breaking his neck.”
Answers: 1) The narrator speaking of Henry’s trip to Washington, D. C., in 1850. 2) The narrator speaks of Henry’s privileged birth in 1838. 3) Adams’s theory of class size, expressed in relationship to Harvard. 4) Ulysses S. Grant’s observation regarding international attractions. 5) Henry’s conclusion, specifically prompted by Secretary of State Seward. 6) One of Henry’s best known aphorisms, concerning Harvard. 7) Grant accepting nomination for presidency, May 29, 1868; Henry sees a second meaning: that Grant wants to be left alone. 8) Representative of Henry’s bias against the English and his love for paradox, regarding his time in London (1863). 9) Henry’s term for gold capitalists during gold-silver conflict of 1890s. 10) Henry invents this metaphor while considering man’s position in the universe as part of the “Abyss of Ignorance” (Chapter XXIX).
