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

No garden is without its weeds.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

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

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.