A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.