They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.