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

I know well that happiness is in little things.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.