The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

The egotist is next door to a fanatic.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.