A book worth reading is worth buying.

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.