Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

Ability without honor has no value.

It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.