A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. – Sir Thomas Browne
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. – Horace Mann