Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.