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

Ideas are the root of creation.

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

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.

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