A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

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

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.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.