"A man who is ignorant of foreign..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.”

“The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.”

“He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.”

“In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.”

“One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.”

“Nobody did nothin' to nobody.”

“Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.”

“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”

“Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.”