Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. - Samuel Butler

Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism …

it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.