One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
The richest minds need not large libraries.
Opposition strengthens the manly will.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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.