Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.