Learning (n.) is, for a child, reading the lesson ten times and sleeping on it; an adult learns the essential only by doing it.
Learning (n.) is what an age keeps after it has obliterated passion — and it wants books that can be perused during the afternoon nap.
Learning (n.) possessed selfishly makes the learned man more and more learned, until at last no one can understand him and he cannot communicate himself.
Learning (n.) that does not in the end edify is, for that very reason, unchristian — detachment from life is not rigor but an inhuman curiosity.
Learning (n.) is only recollection: the ignorant need merely be reminded, for the truth was never imparted to them but was in them all along.