"A capacity, and taste, for reading gives..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.”

“Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.”

“It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.”

“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”

“If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.”

“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”

“There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.”

“What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.”

“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.”