He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.