“[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.”

“O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!”

“Wiki has a feel of brainstorming, though it's not as interactive. You can do 10 minutes of brainstorming, and 30 minutes of analysis of the product of that brainstorming, and have something in 45 minutes. The pace on wiki is slower. You could write a page about an idea, or maybe a page about a bunch of ideas. Then you could come back in a week and see what's developed on that page.”

“Compressing 13,000 years of history on all continents into a 400-page book works out to an average of about one page per continent per 150 years, making brevity and simplification inevitable. Yet the compression brings a compensating benefit: long-term comparisons of regions yield insights that cannot be won from short-term studies of single societies.”

“As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.”

“A law is a social monument, a page of history, a lesson in ethnography, a reason for state.”

“(introduction) This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.”

“Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. (XIV, Translated by W. H. S. Jones. LCL 148, Pages 296-297)”

“The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.”

“So little is said about the scholarship boy in pages and pages of educational literature. Nothing is said of the silence that comes to separate the boy from his parents.”