"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

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.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.