no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.