Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.