The Highest Form Of Bliss

The Main Hope Of A Nation Lies In The Proper Education Of Its Youth

At Last Concluded That No Creature Was More Miserable Than Man, For That All Other Creatures Are Content With Those Bounds That Nature Set Them, Only Man Endeavors To Exceed Them.

By A Carpenter Mankind Was Made, And Only By That Carpenter Can Mankind Be Remade.

Providence Has Decreed That Those Common Acquisitions, Money, Gems, Plate, Noble Mansions, And Dominion, Should Be Sometimes Bestowed On The Indolent And Unworthy; But Those Things Which Constitute Our True Riches, And Which Are Properly Our Own, Must Be Procured By Our Own Labor.

I Consider As Lovers Of Books Not Those Who Keep Their Books Hidden In Their Store-chests And Never Handle Them, But Those Who, By Nightly As Well As Daily Use Thumb Them, Batter Them, Wear Them Out, Who Fill Out All The Margins With Annotations Of Many Kinds, And Who Prefer The Marks Of A Fault They Have Erased To A Neat Copy Full Of Faults.