Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies

I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.

True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.

First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.