I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

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

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.