... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.