How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

The great hope of society is in individual character

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

Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.