We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.