You Are Constantly Invited To Be What

We Teach Boys To Be Such Men As We Are. We Do Not Teach Them To Aspire To Be All They Can. We Do Not Give Them A Training As If Webelieved In Their Noble Nature. We Scarce Educate Their Bodies. We Do Not Train The Eye And The Hand. We Exercise Their Understandings To The Apprehension And Comparison Of Some Facts, To A Skill In Numbers, In Words; We Aim To Make Accountants, Attorneys, Engineers; But Not To Make Able, Earnest, Great- Hearted Men.

Keep The Town For Occasions, But The Habits Should Be Formed In Retirement.

For It Is Not Metres, But A Metre-making Argument That Makes A Poem.

A Scholar Does Not Wish To Be Always Pumping His Brains; He Wants Gossips.

The Inmost In Due Time Becomes The Outmost.