If An Idiot Were To Tell You

Genius May Conceive But Patient Labor Must Consummate.

Under The Providence Of God, Our Means Of Education Are The Grand Machinery By Which The 'raw Material' Of Human Nature Can Be Worked Up Into Inventors And Discoverers, Into Skilled Artisans And Scientific Farmers, Into Scholars And Jurists, Into The Founders Of Benevolent Institutions, And The Great Expounders Of Ethical And Theological Science.

False Conclusions Which Have Been Reasoned Out Are Infinitely Worse Than Blind Impulse.

Give Me A House Furnished With Books Rather Than Furniture! Both, If You Can, But Books At Any Rate!

Knowledge Is But An Instrument, Which The Profligate And The Flagitious May Use As Well As The Brave And The Just.