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

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

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

People die, but books never die.

It seems to me that the dedication of a library is in itself an act of faith.

To bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a Nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.