"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."
"Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form."
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ? and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."
