To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead.

He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.

the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.