Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Books are humanity in print.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.

The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.

The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.