There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Law dies, books never.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

The classic literature is always modern.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.