When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the internal troubles that have vexed European States... have arisen from theological differences or from the rival claims of Church and State. This whole vast chapter of debate and strife has remained virtually unopened in the United States. There is no Established Church. All religious bodies are equal before the law, and unrecognized by the law, except as voluntary associations of private citizens.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.