He Who Shuts Out Truth, By The

Be Careful Never To Retire To Rest In A Room Not Properly Ventilated.

A House Without Books Is Like A Room Without Windows. No Man Has A Right To Bring Up His Children Without Surrounding Them With Books, If He Has The Means To Buy Them. It Is A Wrong To His Family. He Cheats Them! Children Learn To Read By Being In The Presence Of Books. The Love Of Knowledge Comes With Reading And Grows Upon It.

Education Alone Can Conduct Us To That Enjoyment Which Is, At Once, Best In Quality And Infinite In Quantity.

Keep One Thing In View Forever- The Truth; And If You Do This, Though It May Seem To Lead You Away From The Opinion Of Men, It Will Assuredly Conduct You To The Throne Of God.

Without Undervaluing Any Other Human Agency, It May Be Safely Affirmed That The Common School, Improved And Energized, As It Can Easily Be, May Become The Most Effective And Benignant Of All The Forces Of Civilization. Two Reasons Sustain This Position. In The First Place, There Is A Universality In Its Operation, Which Can Be Affirmed Of No Other Institution Whatever... And, In The Second Place, The Materials Upon Which It Operates Are So Pliant And Ductile As To Be Susceptible Of Assuming A Greater Variety Of Forms Than Any Other Earthly Work Of The Creator.