It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.