"Perhaps there are none more lazy, or..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.”

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

“Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.”

“It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.”

“We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.”

“I'm a big 'Goosebumps' fan - 'Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.' My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.”

“As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.”