“Every artist dips his brush into his own soul.”

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

“Every writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”

“Books are the windows throughwhich the soul looks out.”

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.”