“The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.”

“The never-ending task of self improvement.”

“The years teach us much, which the days never knew.”

“It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.”

“Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.”

“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”