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

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

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.

Ideas are the root of creation.

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

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