My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.