Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

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

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.