A man's library is a sort of harem.

But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.