有了图书馆，你就是自由的，不受暂时政治气候的限制。它是最民主的机构，因为没有人——绝对没有人——能告诉你该读什么、什么时候读以及如何读。
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
It is not necessary to take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
正确陈述的反面是错误陈述。但一个深刻真理的反面很可能是另一个深刻真理。
不被荣誉诱惑，不被诽谤吓退，遵循道义行事，认真端正自己。
If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable.