Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

Popularity is for dolls.