Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
- James A. Froude

Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.
- John Milton

The true university these days is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein

Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. It is thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
- Thomas Fuller

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
- Francois La Rouchefoucauld

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman thinks of the next generation.
- James Freeman Clarke