Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son — Book Notes

George Horace Lorimer

Published: 1902

• You’ll find that education’s about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away.
• The first thing that any education ought to give a man is character, and the second thing is education.
• There are two parts of a college education — the part you get in the schoolroom from the professors, and the part you get outside of it from the boys. That’s the most important part. For the first can only make you a scholar, while the second can make you a man.
• Education’s a good deal like eating — a fellow can’t always tell which particular thing did him good, but he can usually tell which one did him harm.
• College doesn’t make fools; it develops them. It doesn’t make bright men; it develops them. A fool will turn out a fool, whether he goes to college or not, though he’ll probably turn out a different sort of a fool.
• It isn’t so much knowing a whole lot, as knowing a little and how to use it that counts.
• The only sure way a man get get rich quick is to have it given to him or inherit it.
• I can’t hand out any…