Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
The pen has shaken nations.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.
Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.
Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.