Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes. . .
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes. . .
There are only 3 pleasures in life pure and lasting, and they all are derived from inanimate things books, pictures, and the face of nature.
The fields his study, nature was his book.
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories