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

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?