They have no taste for history or biography, or anything but cheap, trashy, sensational novels.
The passive reception of other men's thoughts is not education.

Beware of intellectual dram drinking and intellectual dissipation.

It is emasculating.

Beware of the book which does not make you determined to go and do something and be something in the world.
The great difference between the American graduate and the graduates from the English universities is that the latter have not read many books superficially, but a few books well.

The American graduate has a smattering of many books, but has not become master of any.