Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.