Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.