Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.