“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
