Genius is initiative on fire.
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.