Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.