Every School Boy And School

It Is Well, When The Wise And The Learned Discover New Truths; But How Much Better To Diffuse The Truths Already Discovered, Amongst The Multitude! Every Addition To True Knowledge Is An Addition To Human Power; And While A Philosopher Is Discovering One New Truth, Millions May Be Propagated Amongst The People. Diffusion, Then, Rather Than Discovery, Is The Duty Of Our Government.

An Ignorant Man Is Always Able To Say Yes Or No Immediately To Any Proposition. To A Wise Man, Comparatively Few Things Can Be Propounded Which Do Not Require A Response With Qualifications, With Discriminations, With Proportion.

Superiority To Circumstances Is One Of The Most Prominent Characteristics Of Great Men.

Ideality Is The Avant-courier Of The Mind.

A House Without Books Is Like A Room Without Windows. No Man Has A Right To Bring Up His Children Without Surrounding Them With Books, If He Has The Means To Buy Them. It Is A Wrong To His Family. He Cheats Them! Children Learn To Read By Being In The Presence Of Books. The Love Of Knowledge Comes With Reading And Grows Upon It.