"Intellectual food is like any other; it..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.”

“America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.”

“When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.”

“Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.”

“A leader is a reader.”

“Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.”

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”

“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).”

“There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?”