In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

Everything good is on the highway.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.