Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.