A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.