The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.