Literature is the garden of wisdom.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.