False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

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 more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.