Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.