"You will demand much of your teachers, but what you get is your responsibility" - William H. Armstrong
"How long do you put off thinking yourself worthy of the best of things... what sort of teacher are you still waiting for, that you put off improving yourself until he comes? You are not a [child] anymore, but already..full grown" -Epicetus
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." -Mark Twain
"There is no such thing as an interesting book, there are only interested readers" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The student who ignores rules and definitions is all too soon overcome by ideas that cannot be understood". - William H. Armstrong
"It matters, if individuals are to retain any capacity to form their own judgments and opinions, that they continue to read for themselves" - Harold Bloom
"Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body" - Joseph Addison
