“You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.” MayRoomsStudentsAnxietyCatPositivelySoothing Book:Chapters on Animals Source: Chapters on Animals
“The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.” MayArtWholeCultureReadingResultsModernLibraryThese DaysSkipModern Culture Book:The Intellectual Life Source: The Intellectual Life
“Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.” KindMayHas BeensAgeDutyFriendsIntellectualTraditionForgottenAidsTreasureUnfortunateTransmitInvaluableIntellectual Life Book:The Intellectual Life Source: The Intellectual Life
