I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.