The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.