History is a science, no more and no less.

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.

The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.

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

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

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

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

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

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.