To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society. It is better to support schools than jails. He who opens a school door , closes a prison. In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period.
Every crime ends with a sentence.
The finest hours of life are not those spent among groups of people, but in good conversation with a few, in reading great books, in listening to great music, wandering in a forest of giant sequoias, peering into a microscope, unraveling nature's secrets in the laboratory. The men who have the most to give their fellowmen are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself. It is certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.