Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.