I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

At least let us have healthy books.