A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.