I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling book came with its arbitrary forms, men...

What good does education do us? It makes our characters more polished; it does not make them better. Maximus, Valerius. Valerius Maximus,...

But with boys, the texts to be read should be those which will best nourish the mind and develop the character. Quintilian. Quintilian,...

Education, according to him, is a controlling grace to the young, consolation to the old, wealth to the poor, and ornament to the rich....

There is no Frigate like a Book," wrote Emily Dickinson, "to take us Lands away." Though the young Lincoln never left the frontier, would never leave America, he traveled with Byron's Childe Harold to Spain and Portugal, the Middle East and Italy; accompanied Robert Burns to Edinburgh; and followed the English kings into battle with Shakespeare. As he explored the wonders of literature and the history of the country, the young Lincoln, already conscious of his own power, dev