“To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”

“Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. ”

“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.”

“Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.”

“A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”

“He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. He that to what he sees, adds observation, and to what he reads, reflection, is in the right road to knowledge, provided that in scrutinizing the heart of others, he neglects not his own.”

“Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.”