Love--that Divine Fire Which Was Made To

If Ever There Was A Cause, If Ever There Can Be A Cause, Worthy To Be Upheld By All Of Toil Or Sacrifice That The Human Heart Can Endure, It Is The Cause Of Education. It Has Intrinsic And Indestructible Merits. It Holds The Welfare Of Mankind In Its Embrace, As The Protecting Arms Of A Mother Hold Her Infant To Her Bosom. The Very Ignorance And Selfishness Which Obstructs Its Path Are The Strongest Arguments For Its Promotion, For It Furnishes The Only Adequate Means For Their Removal.

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.

The Earth Flourishes, Or Is Overrun With Noxious Weeds And Brambles, As We Apply Or Withhold The Cultivating Hand. So Fares It With The Intellectual System Of Man.

Every Event In This World Is The Effect Of Some Precedent Cause, And Also The Cause Of Some Subsequent Effect.

The Most Formidable Attribute Of Temptation Is Its Increasing Power, Its Accelerating Ratio Of Velocity. Every Act Of Repetition Increases Power, Diminishes Resistance. It Is Like The Letting Out Of Waters-where A Drop Can Go, A River Can Go. Whoever Yields To Temptation, Subjects Himself To The Law Of Falling Bodies.