C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Intelligence
To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the horizon of its desires and wants.
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.
God multiples intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.
Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it, all give it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the mind and opinion of the age.
It is no proof of a man’s understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.