“It does not take age to be a sage, neither does it require rage to have the courage to be a sage in this day and age.”

“Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.”

“I acquired courage from the masterpieces of sages. I came of age by their instructions to keep going, even in hard times. Then I learnt not to despair, even when it seemed that my world is falling apart. I learnt to possess fortitude.”

“A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages.”

“Therefore the sage, while he never does what is great, is able on that account to accomplish the greatest things.”

“Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?”