A collection of books is the best of all universities.
In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.