My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.