Bessie-isms:

*Teaching is often a thankless task; usually a teacher is long gone and buried before their students figure out why they should be grateful for being taught anything.

*The average human has to give into temptation a few times, and get hammered by the evil consequences before grasping why resisting temptation is wise.

Quotable:

One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Mark Twain