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I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.