Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.