It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

There are remedies for all things but death.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.