Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room, thirty by twenty feet, and the walls of shelves filled with books, had for him the murmuring of many voices. In the books of Herodotus, Tacitus, Rabelais, Thomas Browne, John Milton, and scores of others, he had found men of face and voice more real to him than many a man he had met for a smoke and a talk.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.