In learning to know other things and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves and are to ourselves better worth knowing.  

All that we have read and learned….. constitutes at last a spiritual society, of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it. 

We may, if we choose, find a purer and more exquisite delight in wise reading than in anything else….. 

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. 

Books are precious heirlooms from one generation to another, training us, encouraging us, teaching us by the words and thoughts of men whose words… whihc they got from the Word of God – still live and bear fruit in our hearts,

…..Lord, mine eye 
On Thee is fixed, to Thee I cry:
Wash, Lord, and purify my heart, 
And make it clean in every part;
And when ’tis clean, Lord, keep it too, 
For that is more than I can do.

…..our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

…..if it is true that yesterday’s wrong thought gives birth to the trials of to-day, it is equally certain that to-day’s right thinking will generate joy for the morrow.

Our thoughts mould our life, because life and thought are one.

He determined to add nothing, not so much as a passing sigh even, to the great total of men’s unhappiness, in his way through the world….