Resolve and thou art free.

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.