Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed