“Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books”
“The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.”
“Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.”
“It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.”
“The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”
“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...”