“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty

Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

He was a wise man who invented God.

What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book smart.

Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.

I should infinitely prefer a book.