“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”

“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge”

“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”

“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”

“You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.”

“It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.”

“An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”