“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”

“Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.”

“Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.”

“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”

“Saviour! teach me, day by day,
Love's sweet lesson to obey;
Sweeter lesson cannot be,
Loving Him who first loved me.
Charity is the very livery of Christ.”

“All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.”

“More inspiring and interesting teaching alone can make progress in education possible: for such teaching alone has power to produce greater self-activity, greater concentration of mind, greater desire to learn not only how to get a living, but how to live.”

“If many great books seem unreadable and unintelligible … it may be because we have not for a long time learned to read by reading them. Great books teach people not only how to read them, but how to read all other books.”

“Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.”

“Life and those who rear us teach lessons that break us. How we reassemble the broken pieces defines what we become.”