Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

For style beyond the genius never dares.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.