"Every one being allowed to learn to..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The value of life itself cannot be estimated.”

“Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.”

“We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.”

“I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!”

“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.”

“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.”

“You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.”

“The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.”

“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”