If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.