With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.