By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade..

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war..

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.

There is no joy in possession without sharing..

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know..

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king..

Your library is your paradise..

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it….

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and pl….

Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his pers….

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters..

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself..

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians..

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes..

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born..

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis..

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit..

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn..

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are..

He who allows oppression shares the crime..

Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they black….