It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.