The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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.