...arrange one's ideas, and eventually creates an intellectual appetite for what is ennobling and elevated. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking that makes what we read our own, and putting on record the result is our duty to fellow man. " Not...

...who have read about everything are thought to understand everything, too, but it is not always so ; reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge : it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves...