"One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking" — John Burroughs

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on

Source: In a Balcony (1855)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Source: The Tatler, no. 147 (1710)

John Burroughs Quote