Study

“Character is not cut in marble; it is something living and changing.”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“Slow and steady wins the race.”

“The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.”

“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

“Life is real! Life is earnest! And the sky is blue!”

“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”

“One ought to have a holiday from one's books every day.”

“The ink of the scholar is as precious as the blood of the martyr.”

“We learn by teaching.”

“Practice makes perfect.”

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

“That low man goes on adding one to one, his hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, misses an unit.”

“Art is long, life is short.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know.”

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

“Is it not pleasant to learn and practise what one has learnt? Is it not pleasant to have friends coming from afar?”

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You don't even have to listen, you can just wait.”

“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”