Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be particularized without involving a detail too tedious and uninteresting to compensate for the instruction it might afford.
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.
