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.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

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.

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

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.