for us is still
but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to
read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet
and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get
knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It
depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done
their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection
of books.--CARLYLE.

If you suffer your people to be ill educated, and their manners to be
corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to
which their first education disposed them--you first make thieves and
then punish them.--SIR THOMAS MORE.

'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
--POPE.

EGOTISM.--When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without
loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises
never.--MONTAIGNE.

Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will
take it upon your word.--CHESTERFIELD.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not to talk of ourselves
at all.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

It is never permissible to say, I say.--MADAME NECKER.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
--ZIMMERMANN.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words
sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.--HARE.

The more anyone speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another
talked of.--LAVATER.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of
yourself.--PASCAL.

He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others
is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him
is still more mistaken.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

ELOQUENCE.--Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this
advantage over those that are read from a manuscript; every burst of
eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they
may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect
of the sudden inspiration of talent.--COLTON.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing
but what is necessary.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be
brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will
toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but