---

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

---

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

---

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

---

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

---

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

---

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

---

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

---

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

---

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

---

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

---