Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Fate loves the fearless.

The one thing finished in this hasty world.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.