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

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

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

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

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

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

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