Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.