"Read, and you will know, my child."
"Who lives on the other side of the world?"
"Read, and you will know."
"Why is the sky so blue?"
"Read, and you will know."
"Oh, mother, I would like to know everything."
"You can never know everything, my child. But you can learn many things from books."
"Yes, mother, I will read and then I will know."
He was a very little boy, but before he was three years old he could read quite well. When eight years of age he was the best scholar at the famous school at Harrow. He was always reading, learning, inquiring.
"I want to know; I want to know," he kept saying.