“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”

“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

“never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a wordParaphrased”

“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”