To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.