"The wise man will want to be..." - Quote by Plato

“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?”

“Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.”

“I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.”

“Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.”

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

“They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.”

“I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'”

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”

“Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.”