The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

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

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.