There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

We read to know we are not alone.

We read to know we are not alone.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books read more

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of
science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will
grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or
religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the
ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a
lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and
receives more instruction from the Press than the read more

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and
receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.