To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.
... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.