“The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.”

“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”

“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking,and an art of writing.”

“Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.”

“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”

“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.”

“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age”