The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

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.

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.