Some one asked Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, why he continued to study
for his pupils “as tho he should not have enough to give them.”
“It is not,” was his reply, “because I fear I should not have
enough to give them, but because I prefer that they should be
supplied from a running stream rather than from a stagnant pool.”
“Stagnant pools” have been the ruin of many men in many walks of life.
(1736)