Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of Society is not natural to mankind. It cuts against the grain. A boy would like to follow his father in pursuit of food or prey. He would like to be doing serviceable things so far as his utmost strength allowed. He would like to be earning wages however small to help to keep up the home. He would like to have some leisure of his own to use or misuse as he pleased. He would ask little more than the right to work or starve. And then perhaps in the evenings a real love of learning would come to those who are worthy – and why try to stuff in those who are not? – and knowledge and thought would open the ‘magic casements’ of the mind. Never Give In!

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. The Old Curiosity Shop

First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it. Twilight of the Idols

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them. Book VIII