8 quotes
"Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us."
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence."
"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
"Our ideals are our better selves."
"One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books."
"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."