James Freeman Clarke

“We are either progressing or retrograding all the while there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.”

“When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.”

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”