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

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.

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.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.