Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

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.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.