Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.