“There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!”

“Literature is the thought of thinking souls.”

“A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.”

“In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.”

“Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.”

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”

“In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.”