Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
“Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.”
“Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.”