He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.