We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.