Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. 2.26K
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. 599
Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. 1.36K
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. 704
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. 730
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. 631
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. 586
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. 636
