The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being

There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.