A liberal education only renders a rascal more dishonest, more dangerous.

_Educated rascality is infinitely more of a menace to society than ignorant rascality_.
Every year, thousands of young men and young women graduate full of ambition and hope, full of expectancy, go out from the schools, the colleges, and the universities, with their diplomas, to face for the first time the practical world.
There is nothing else, perhaps, which the graduate needs to be cautioned against more than the money madness which has seized the American people, for nothing else is more fatal to the development of the higher, finer instincts and nobler desires.
Wealth with us multiplies a man's power so tremendously that everything gravitates toward it.

A man's genius, art, what he stands for, is measured largely by how many dollars it will bring.

"How much can I get for my picture ?" "How much royalty for my book ?" "How much can I get out of my specialty, my profession, my business ?" "How can I make the most money ?" or "How can I get rich ?" is the great interrogation of the century.

How will the graduate, the trained young man or woman answer it?
The dollar stands out so strongly in all the undertakings of life that the ideal is often lowered or lost, the artistic suffers, the soul's wings are weighted down with gold.