Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.