The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.