Reading, To Most People, Means An Ashamed

A School Is A Place Through Which You Have To Pass Before Entering Life, But Where The Teaching Proper Does Not Prepare You For Life.

Americans Cannot Realize How Many Chances For Mental Improvement They Lose By Their Inveterate Habit Of Keeping Six Conversations When There Are Twelve In The Room.

Life Is A Succession Of Lessons Enforced By Immediate Reward, Or, Oftener, By Immediate Chastisement.

We All More Or Less Consciously Note This. We Cannot Help Observing That All Serious Conversations Gravitate Towards Philosophy.

Whatever We Read From Intense Curiosity Gives Us The Model Of How We Should Always Read. Plodding Along Page After Page With An Equal Attention To Each Word Results In Attention To Mere Words.