"Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82"
"And the great thing about money is that it doesn’t matter when you harvest it. It’s an all-year crop."
"The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust."
"People perish. Books are immortal."
"Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195"
"For them, it was just an ordinary miracle."
"Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this period is reckoned a portion of life." - Pg. 82"