Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you read more

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

When night hath set her silver lamp high,
Then is the time for study.

When night hath set her silver lamp high,
Then is the time for study.

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still
air of delightful studies.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still
air of delightful studies.

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?

Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.

Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

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.