Example

Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people

Experience is the teacher of all things

I have lerned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example

Children have more need of models than of critics

Know or listen to those who know

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

All art is but imitation of nature

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators

Our ideals are our better selves