Experience is only half of experience.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.