"Ideas are the root of creation."

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."

"Social intercourse, with its … hypocrisy … is highly productive of thought-hindering insincerity."

"The more a man thinks the better adapted he becomes to thinking, and education is nothing if it is not the methodical…"

"Very busy people always find time for everything. Conversely, people with immense leisure find time for nothing."

"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. There exists some book, pamphlet, article…"

"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Common parlance …"

"Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have dev…"

"[about the Latin phrase time Jesum transeuntem et non revertentem ("Dread the passage of Jesus, for He does not retur…"

"Every day you waste a chance, many chances in fact, of getting at your innermost consciousness by expressing yourself…"