The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes,…

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When in doubt, risk it

When in doubt, risk it

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your...

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your...

Genius is initiative on fire.

Genius is initiative on fire.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it...

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it...

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Your library is your portrait.

Your library is your portrait.

Your library is your portrait.

Your library is your portrait.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your...

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your...

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge

Picture an iceberg. The bulk of its power lies below the surface. The part of...

Picture an iceberg. The bulk of its power lies below the surface. The part of...

My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge

My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of...

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...