The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

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

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

And blessed are the horny hands of toil.