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Turning and turning in the widening gyre,
The falcone cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

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Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

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If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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