Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

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.

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 join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

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.