growth Quotes

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.