Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

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

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.