"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."