"In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life."

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments."

"It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body."

"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."

"I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things."

"It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement."

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."