It is not then how much a man may know that is of importance, but the end and purpose for which he knows it (p.299). - Samuel Smiles

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.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

may be of comparatively little consequence how a man is governed from without, whilst everything depends upon how he governs himself from within. The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice. Nations who are thus enslaved at heart cannot be freed by any mere changes of masters