Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

Never insult anyone by accident.

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.