You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

A book is the only immortality.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.