Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

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

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.

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.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

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

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.