“Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.”

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”

“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.”

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

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

“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.”

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party ...”