Everybody who is in earnest in this matter will have the same sort of experience as the recruit in the army who is compelled to learn walking after having walked almost all his life as a dilettante or empiricist. It is a hard time: one almost fears that the tendons are going to snap and one ceases to hope that the artificial and consciously acquired movements and positions of the feet will ever be carried out with ease and comfort.

Everyone being allowed to learn to read ruins in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

Sometimes, you can learn more from criticism than you can from flattery.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.