"A man will not need to study..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.”

“Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.”

“Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

“Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are”

“The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.”

“This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.”

“Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.”

“You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.”

“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”