“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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.