"Rome grew powerful through her military and political genius; and then, from Greece, she learnt to live the life of t…"

"History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go mu…"

"The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one sy…"

"The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest…"

"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voic…"

"Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine,…"

"Imitar equivale a moverse i fatigarse en el wagón de un ferrocarril: nos imajinamos realizar mucho i no hacemos más q…"

"El hombre anda con pasos cortos en la infancia i en la vejez."

"la forma da el mérito; n'olvidemos que sólo por la forma, el carbono se llama unas veces carbón i otras veces diamante"

"Si las naciones d'Europa figuran como los grandes paquidermos del reino intelectual, no representemos en el Perú a lo…"