There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

If you're going to walk through hell, keep going.