A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.