Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.