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

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

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

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.

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.