The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.
George William CurtisVirtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
George William Curtis