I am a living member of the great family of all souls.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.