It is owing to the preservation of books, that we are led to embrace their contents. No person can be considered as possessing a good education without religion. A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be. This world is only a place to prepare for another and a better. In proportion to the education of a nation, it is rich and powerful.
Education is a system which the bravest men have followed.
Knowledge is the very foundation of wealth, and of nations. Aristotle held unlimited control over the opinions of men for fifteen centuries, and governed the empire of mind where ever he was known. For knowledge, men brave every danger, they explore the sandy regions of Africa, and diminish the arena of contention and bloodshed. Man is the noblest work in the universe of God. Egypt, that once shot over the world brilliant rays of genius, is sunk in darkness.