And knowledge, but from hour to hour
In reverence and in charity.
Tennyson.
Knowledge holdeth by the hilt, and heweth out a road to conquest;
Ignorance graspeth the blade, and is wounded by its own good sword.
Knowledge distilleth health from the virulence of opposite poisons;
Ignorance mixeth wholesomes unto the breeding of disease.
Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things;
But ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome, ill at ease, and out of place.
M. F. Tupper.