“Let me earnestly recommend in your reading to keep fast to particular hours, and suffer no one thing to encroach on the other.”

Advocating disciplined habits of reading and study · Letter to Walter Scott, 17 March 1821

• Learning
• Reading
• Work

“The knowledge which we acquire by our own unaided efforts, is much more tenaciously retained by the memory, while the exertion necessary to gain it strengthens the understanding.”

Arguing that self-directed learning strengthens both memory and mind · Letter to Walter Scott, 17 March 1821

• Knowledge
• Learning
• Mind