Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.