The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.