Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion... that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

Jo's Boys: From the Original Publisher (ed. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2009) - ISBN: 9780316087070