"Equaliser" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... doubt, all become. There is indeed a land of Havilah open to them, of which the wonderful sentence is literally true—"The gold of that land is good." But they must first understand, that education, in its deepest sense, is not the equaliser, but the discerner, of men;[1] and that, so far from being instruments for the collection of riches, the first lesson of wisdom is to disdain them, and of gentleness, ...
— Lectures on Art - Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 • John Ruskin |
