How to study

by George Fillmore Swain

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested," except that very few, if any, are to be literally swallowed without digestion.

"Read not to contradict and to confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."[

"If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much.

Poverty never spoils a good man, but prosperity often does. It's