Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
If a farmer fills his barn with grain he gets mice. If he leaves it empty he gets actors.
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I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.
The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything, you're still seventeen.