Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk, or grave: Some chord in unison wit…

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it …

Give what Thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.