„I may not avail myself of the opportunity of denying once more the truth of the story that Prince Bismarck had ever likened Lord Salisbury to a lath of wood painted to look like iron.”
- Sidney Whitman –
“I must create a system, or be enslav’d by another Man’s; I will not Reason and Compare: my business is to Create.”
- William Blake: Jerusalem –
“I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.”
- Charles Lamb: Last essays of Elia –
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.”
- Oscar Wilde –
“Against the blown rose may they stop their nose. That kneel’d unto the buds.”
- William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra –
“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”
- Samuel Butler –
“I stood among them, but not of them; In a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.”
- Lord George Gordon Byron –
