Our Bravest And Best Lessons

I Consider It The Best Part Of An Education To Have Been Born And Brought Up In The Country.

Genius Has Oftenest Been The Pariah Of His Time, The Unhoused God Whom None Cared For, Unnamed Till They Whom He First Promoted, Enriched And Honored, Found It Honorable To Own Their Benefactor.

Observation More Than Books And Experience More Than Persons, Are The Prime Educators.

To Be Ignorant Of One's Ignorance Is The Malady Of The Ignorant.

What Higher Praise Can We Bestow On Any One Than To Say Of Him That He Harbors Another's Prejudices With A Hospitality So Cordial As To Give Him, For The Time, The Sympathy Next Best To, If Indeed It Be Not Edification In, Charity Itself. For What Disturbs More And Distracts Mankind Than The Uncivil Manners That Cleave Man From Man?