Our ideals are our better selves.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse