Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.