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.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

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.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

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.

Ideas are the root of creation.