Your library is your paradise.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.