I know that the poor and ignorant envied the rich and cultured then; but to us the latter, living as they did, surrounded by squalor and brutishness, seem little better off than the former.

The cultured man in your age was like one up to the neck in a nauseous bog solacing himself with a smelling bottle.

You see, perhaps, now, how we look at this question of universal high education.

No single thing is so important to every man as to have for neighbors intelligent, companionable persons.

There is nothing, therefore, which the nation can do for him that will enhance so much his own happiness as to educate his neighbors.