I have often thought what a melancholy world this world would be without children; and what an inhuman world, without the aged.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody’s reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor […]
Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.
I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathizes with their just feelings.
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest, and best of men is but an aphorism.
If man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast.
