The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.