Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues.

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny for it is destiny.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

The biggest seller is cookbooks, and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.