Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levellers. They give to all, who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.

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

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

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

Be true to your own highest convictions.