Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

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.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.