One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

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.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.