Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.
Acquiring things will rarely bring you deep satisfaction. But acquiring experiences will.
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.
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.
I'm not afraid of the future; I'm afraid of the past.