"It bears repeating: Investing in college summer programs — even if you do A work at the college — is no guarantee of getting in."
—Elizabeth Wissner-Gross, What High Schools Don't Tell You

An illustration from a 1903 issue of English Illustrated magazine.  The caption reads: "I saw the hawk-headed chap promenading slowly up and down the room."

"The surprising truth is this: no so-called psychiatric disorder has ever been proven to be genetic."
—Peter Roger Breggin & Ginger Ross Breggin, The War Against Children of Color (1998)

The ideal vs. the actual: an illustration from an 1892 issue of English Illustrated magazine.

"He lives doubly who also enjoys the past." —Marcus Martial

An illustration from a 1916 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "On the fourth day comes the astrologer from his crumbling old tower."

An illustration from an 1884 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.

An illustration from a 1915 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "As he got up and stepped toward a bell, I discovered that he had been sitting on Filber!"

Staring into the depths: an illustration from an 1893 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "Behold, where we shall be tomorrow!"

"This may surprise you, but it is a fact and the majority of the people fail to appreciate the efforts and the money required to properly build permanent highways."
—Hotel Monthly, 1918

"What does it mean?": an illustration from an 1897 issue of The Ludgate Illustrated magazine.

An illustration from an 1889 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "Out of the darkness something white shaped itself."

"And then you go up to it and see, for the sake of argument, that it is an artificial rose."
—Bruno Munari, "A Rose is a Rose is a," Design as Art