Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

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

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.