“Now comes the mystery! (last words)”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“Men's best successes come after their disappointments.”

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”

“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ”

“There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.”

“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.”