It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

It is the Mass that matters.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

You cannot thrive under the wrong stars, Kricket… the stars here are in opposition to you… can’t you feel it?… Let us take you home.

Believe in the power of dreams.

But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

I couldn't bear to see a chapter of the gospel turned into a chapter of Trollope.

We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.

When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.

Heed not the night; A summer lodge amid the wild is mine, 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'Tis mantled by the vine.