The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may make them capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

The only way to get to the top is to climb the mountain, not to wait for the elevator.

"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another