The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.