Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.