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

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

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

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

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.

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.