No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.—Haliburton.
Education.—The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.—Mrs. Sigourney.
A father inquires whether his boy can construe Homer, if he understands Horace, and can taste Virgil; but how seldom does he ask, or examine, or think whether he can restrain his passions,—whether he is grateful, generous, humane, compassionate, just and benevolent.—Lady Hervey.
The world is only saved by the breath of the school children.—The Talmud.
It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses.—Beecher.
A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war.—Milton.
Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large term of education. The feelings are to be disciplined, the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances. All this is comprised in education.—Webster.
It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanics' institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.
Unless your cask is perfectly clean, whatever you pour into it turns sour.—Horace.
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.—G.W. Curtis.