Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.