It is with a good book as it is with good company.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

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

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.