Letters on the improvement of the Mind addressed to a young lady : I consider an human soul without education, like marble in the quarry which shews none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection which without such helps are never able to make their appearance. Addison