When is a Man Educated?

When he can look upon the universe, now lucid and lovely, now dark and terrible, with a sense of his own littleness in the great scheme of things, and yet have faith and courage. When he knows how to make friends and keep them, and above all, when he can keep friends with himself.

When he can be happy alone and high-minded amid the drudgeries of life. When he can look into a wayside puddle and see something besides mud, and into the face of the most forlornn mortal and see something divine.

When he knows how to live, how to love, how to hope, how to pray -- is glad to be alive...and has in his heart a bit of a song.

~~Joseph Fort Newton

This was on my box of tea and I found it to be well said!