Our moods do not believe in each other.

Morality is the object of government.

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.