Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

The word is the shadow of the deed.