Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.