A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.