What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?