Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
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.
Ideas are the roots of creation.
Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.