Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Those who learn fastest will achieve more than those who learn best.

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

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.