Quote of the Day

School starts for me on Monday, so I'm in the process of psyching myself up for the new year. The words of Joseph Addison (British man of letters, 1672-1719) help quite a bit in achieving that goal:

"Education is a companion no misfortune can
depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can
alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home
a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude a
solace, and in society an ornament. It chastens
vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and
government to genius. Without it, what is man?
A splendid slave, a reasoning savage."