To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.