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If I Were Rich I Would Have Many Books, And I Would Pamper Myself With Bindings Bright To The Eye And Soft To The Touch, Paper Generously Opaque, And Type Such As Men Designed When Printing Was Very Young. I Would Dress My Gods In Leather And Gold, And Burn Candles Of Worship Before Them At Night, And String Their Names Like Beads On A String.

As Long As There Is Poverty There Will Be Gods.

Music And Religion Are As Intimately Related As Poetry And Love; The Deepest Emotions Require For Their Civilized Expression The Most Emotional Of Arts.

Cultivate Your Garden… Do Not Depend Upon Teachers To Educate You … Follow Your Own Bent, Pursue Your Curiosity Bravely, Express Yourself, Make Your Own Harmony… In The End, Education, Like Happiness, Is Individual, And Must Come To Us From Life And From Ourselves. There Is No Way; Each Pilgrim Must Make His Own Path. "happiness," Said Chamfort, "is Not Easily Won; It Is Hard To Find It In Ourselves, And Impossible To Find It Elsewhere.

The Islamic Conquest Of India Is Probably The Bloodiest Story In History. It Is A Discouraging Tale, For Its Evident Moral Is That Civilization Is A Precious Good, Whose Delicate Complex Of Order And Freedom, Culture And Peace, Can At Any Moment Be Overthrown By Barbarians Invading From Without Or Multiplying Within.