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 only ...
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth ...
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing ...
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ? ...
The more you care for others...The more you get hurt...
