And so we’re forced to get along the very best we can;
Nor do the good that we might do for blundering, headstrong man.
Phrenological Journal.
To read the English language well, to write with dispatch a neat, legible hand, and be master of the first rules of arithmetic, so as to dispose of at once, with accuracy, every question of figures which comes up in practice—I call this a good education. And if you add the ability to write pure grammatical English, I regard it as an excellent education. These are the tools. You can do much with them, but you are helpless without them. They are the foundation; and unless you begin with these, all your flashy attainments, a little geology, and all other ologies and osophies are ostentatious rubbish.—Edward Everett.
The Light-house.
High o’er the black-backed Skerries, and far
To the westward hills and the eastward sea,