The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."

"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."

Never be so brief as to become obscure.