"Beware of the person of one book...." - Quote by Thomas Aquinas

“Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.”

“Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.”

“To love is to will the good of the other.”

“To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.”

“The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.”

“Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.”

“I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.”

“... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.”

“I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.”