I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.