A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Be a lifelong student, read as many books as possible.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

It is a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.