Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. — Johnson. Topics referred to by the same term
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.