One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it s...o.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which... comes to others through their eyes and their ears.... books have meant so much more in my education than in that of others ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse... of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many scholars forget ... that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon... our understanding. ... very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuou...s. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Late late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in hir arme,... And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will cum to harme.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even if it is given that someone understands the name 'God' to signify what is said, namely, 'that than which a greater cannot be ...conceived,' it does not follow that what is signified by this name exists in the nature of things, but only that it exists in the apprehension of the understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth a...nd falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is t...o things made by his art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »