Alcuin

“In the morning, at the height of my powers, I sowed the seed in Britain, now in the evening, when my blood is growing cold, I am still sowing in France, and I pray to God that it may spring up in both lands.”

“He who would be always with God must often pray and often read. For when we pray, we speak with God; and when we read, God speaks with us.”

“For the reading of books is the lighting up of the soul.”

“Nor should we listen to those who say, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God,' for the turbulence of the mob is always close to madness.”

“Let the speech of the messengers be written on the page and on the heart of the hearers.”

“Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.”