O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like.

Live each day as if it were your last

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.

There will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught.

We each survive in our own way.

He bears wounds only seen with the heart and the scars that have formed over the years still pain him.

It feels really great to be popular.

In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.

Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.