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The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

Men of the best intentions and soundest views may differ in their construction of some parts of the Constitution, but there are others on which dispassionate reflection can leave no doubt.

Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

Education, then, is the safest and richest investment possible to man.

Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it—not the boys less, but the girls more.

Hence the necessity that he should have been well trained in habits, who is to study, with any tolerable chance of profit, the principles of nobleness and justice and moral philosophy generally.

The brain can be disciplined by learning the habit of obedience.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Ever since then I have had no patience with any school for my race in the South which did not teach its students the dignity of labour.

There is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women

Very many people, very many students, who otherwise would succeed, who would go through school creditably, graduating with honours, have failed to succeed because they became discouraged.

I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.

You will constantly be surprised to find how little you really know about your work, and how much more somebody else knows about it than you do.

No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

Although our intellect always feels itself urged towards clearness and certainty, still our mind often feels itself attracted by uncertainty.

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased.

Thus the Analytical Engine will possess a library of its own. Every set of cards once made will at any future time reproduce the calculations for which it was first arranged.

By the aid of the Mechanical Notation, the Analytical Engine became a reality: for it became susceptible of demonstration.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.