Many make the household but only one the home.

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

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.