Post #3311

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
—Antisthenes

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Post #1990

We all have two educations, one of which we receive from others, and another, and the most valuable, which we give ourselves. It is this last which fixes our grade in society, and eventually our actual condition in this life, and the color of our fate hereafter. All the professors and teachers in the world would not make you a wise or good man without your co-operation, and if such you are determined to be, the want of them will not prevail.

—John Randolph

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Post #1965

A great deal of useless sympathy is in this day expended upon those who start in life without social or monetary help. Those are most to be congratulated who have at the beginning a rough tussle with circumstances. John Ruskin sets it down as one of his calamities that in early life he had nothing to endure. A petted and dandled childhood makes a weak and insipid man. No brawn of character without compulsory exertion. The men who sit strong in their social, financial, and political elevations, are those who did their own climbing. Misfortune is a rough nurse but she raises giants. Let our young people, instead of succumbing to the influences that would keep them back and down, take them as the parallel bars, and dumb bells, and weights of a gymnasium, by which they are to get muscle for the strife. Consent not to beg your way to fortune, but achieve it. God is always on the side of the man who does his best. God helps the man who tries to overcome difficulties.
—Reverend Dr. Thomas De Witt Talmage

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Post #1546

Every man must educate himself ; his books and teachers are but helps ; the work is his.
—Daniel Webster

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