"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Ridicule is he only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them..."
— Thomas Jefferson

"To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them."
— Pierre-August Renoir

"A house without books is like a room without windows."
— Horace Mann

"There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve."
— Dr. Samuel Johnson

"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."
— Samuel Johnson

"If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears."
— Stephen Fry (Paperweight)