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

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.

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.

His hope wasn't lost, it was buried, and somehow Prudence Ryland made that old grave seem much more shallow than it once was.

Christ’s Atonement provides more than an opportunity to live a happy life later

Bow ties are cool.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

After they were both done, the pile of knives and guns on the coffee table looked like they’d cleaned out an armory. “I think we have a problem, Dmitri.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.