Make your books your companions

The highest form of wisdom is kindness

He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The wind comes along and uproots it and sweeps it down.

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished

Great is the benefit of booklearning; for through books we are instructed and inducted into the path of repentance; for from the words of books attain wisdom and continence. For the words of books are rivers that water the whole earth; they are well-springs of wisdom: the depth of books is unfathomable.

An eye for an eye" (Exodus 21:24). But not an eye and a life for an eye.