There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?