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• Any ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforth have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
  -- Augustine Birrell...
• He that will have no books but those that are scarce
  evinces about as correct a taste in literature as he would do in friendship, who would have no friends but those whom all the rest of the world have sent to coventry....
• Many books are written because they should not have been!
• The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
  -- James Baldwi...
• Why do those who speak loudest always have the least to say?
• All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers.
  No nation has ever sued its way to greatness. -- Richard Lamm...
• Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. -- Voltaire