"I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation."

“I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.”

“Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.”

“In the race for quality, there is no finish line”

“Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.”

“If I’m as normal as I think I am, we’re all a bunch of weirdos.”

“Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.”

“The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.”

Source : Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.198, Cambridge University Press

“If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.”