“A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it”

“Error is discipline through which we advance”

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict”

“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost”

“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some ”

“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”