It always seems impossible until its done.

It always seems impossible until its done.

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:
Small have read more

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:
Small have continual plodders ever won,
Save base authority from others' books.

I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I read more

I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.

I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
What is your study?

I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
What is your study?

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Exhausting thought,
And having wisdom with each studious year.

Exhausting thought,
And having wisdom with each studious year.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous read more

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how read more

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.