a shandean commonplace book

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. Daniel Dennett

It is a great nuisance that knowledge can be acquired only by hard work. W. Somerset Maugham

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton

What the heart has once known, it shall never forget. E.B. White

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties . . . . John Adams, Massachussetts constitution

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. Anatole France