Quotes from Blackwood's Magazine

In ancient days, tradition says, When knowledge was much stinted— When few could teach and fewer preach, And books were not yet printed— What wise men thought, by prudence taught, They pithily expounded; And proverbs sage, from age to age, In every mouth abounded. O Blessings on the men of yore, Whom wisdom thus augmented, And left a store of easy lore For human use invented.