Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.