The less routine the more life.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
The richest minds need not large libraries.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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.