What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.