Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.