“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy”
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“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy”
“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius”
“The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education”
“It is the mind that makes the body rich”
“I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me”
“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party”
“To be content with life, or to live merrily, rather, all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow”
“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him”
“Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass it”
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful”
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”