The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest. - Samuel Smiles

Indeed, we can always better understand and appreciate a man's real character by the manner in which he conducts himself towards those who are the most nearly related to him, and by his transaction of the seemingly commonplace details of daily duty, than by his public exhibition of himself as an author, an orator, or a statesman.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

The ignorant man passes through the world dead to all pleasures, save those of the senses.