*"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind." (Doesn't he mean - "When instructing others do not be verbose."? He, he)
*"Not to know what has been transacted in... former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge." (Sounds like what Leigh Bortins was saying.)
*"No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject." (This seems to be what the kids are learning in CC.)
*"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."