How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.

I would live to study, and not study to live.

I would live to study, and not study to live.