He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

One must learn that which is necessary, and not simply what one wants.

Cicero famously said, you have no choice between having a philosophy and not having one, only between having a good one and having a bad one. And not to admit that you have a philosophy at all is to have a bad one. For it is one that does not know itself. So how could it know anything else, especially us?

Success isn't about things we acquire.