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.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.

Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.