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.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

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.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.