“Devote as much time as possible to studying. Study with faith and with enthusiasm, increasing your knowledge day after day and predisposing yourself at the same time to safeguard this knowledge, which will require the attention and dedication that we must always give to things that will be useful to us.

You should study earnestly and predispose your feelings so that studying fascinates you to the point where you gladly surrender to it. But do not interpret my words to mean that you should occupy yourself only with books. No; your studies must undergo a process of permanent intellectual activity derived from the faculty of observation, which you may exercise at every moment and wherever you are. Your life will then be a constant object of study. You will realize that no other study could be more gratifying.”