It is perhaps as learned a University as any in Europe.
"I should not wish to have children educated in the common schools of this country, where a littleness of soul is notorious.

The masters are mean spirited wretches, pinching, kicking, and boxing the children upon every turn.

There is, besides, a general littleness, arising from the incessant contemplation of stivers and doits, which pervades the whole people.
"Frugality and industry are virtues everywhere, but avarice and stinginess are not frugality.

The Dutch say, that without a habit of thinking of every doit before you spend it, no man can be a good merchant, or conduct trade with success.
"This, I believe, is a just maxim in general; but I would never wish to see a son of mine govern himself by it.

It is the sure and certain way for an industrious man to be rich.