“Полезни са преди всичко тези книги, които повече от другите ви заставят да мислите.”

“Блаженни са тези, които отварят ушите си за думите на мъртвите: трябва да се четат хубавите книги и да се вземат под внимание.”

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”

“Everything gives way to money, and money gives way to nothing, neither to man nor to God.”

“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”

“gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance, giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.”

“It takes years to marry completely two hearts, even of the most loving and well-assorted. A happy wedlock is a long falling in love. Men and women marry fractionally, now a small and then a larger fraction... Such a long and sweet fruit needs a long summer to ripen in and a long winter to season in. But real and happy marriage is one of those things so handsome that if the sun were, as the Greek poets fabled it, a god, he might stop the world and hold it still now and then to feast his eyes on such a spectacle.”