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

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

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.

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.