我不是女权主义者，我是人文主义者。

统治的艺术是组织偶像崇拜。

People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

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.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken， giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.