Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?