During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.