A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.