Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.