Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

... 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.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.