"Nothing in this life, after health and virtue, is more estimable than knowledge, nor is there anything so easily attained, or so cheaply purchased, ~ the labor, only sitting still, and the expense but time, which, if we do not spend, we cannot save."

~ Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1738) Anglo-Irish novelist, clergyman.

 

Twenty Days 'til Spring

"The love of knowledge in a young mind is almost a warrant against the infirm excitement of passions and vices."
~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1837)  American clergyman.