“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It is one of the necessities of a full life.”

“There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. ”

“A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.”

“Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.”

“The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.”

“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not a choice. You must take it. The only question is how.”