Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter juice distilled from the vine of thought and the tree of man's experience.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.