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.

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

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

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

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

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