Reading history makes people wise, reading poems makes people wise, calculus makes people precise, philosophy makes people profound, ethics makes people cultivated, and logical rhetoric makes people compete with Bacon.

Many ideas come from some kind of cultural accomplishment, just as buds grow on green branches, so does Goethe.

People's thoughts are plastic; If a person looks at a good painting, reads a page of masterpieces and listens to a wonderful song every day, he will become an educated person-the newcomer Ruskin.