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.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.