Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.