"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."
"There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper."
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Source: Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”
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