"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts."
"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts."
"Science is the topography of ignorance."
"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul."
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being"
"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."