It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.