Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory...
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Riches and rank have no necessary connection with genuine gentlemanly qualities. The poor man with rich spirit is in all ways superior to the rich man with a poor spirit. To borrow St. Paul's words, t...