A man or woman with a blurred sense of accuracy, a habit of exaggerating, or of letting prejudice get mixed with judgment, is as much hindered in the service of others, in the advancement of the common welfare, as an artist who has lost the sense of what pure colour means.

No great man ever minds stooping.

.….Talking is like playing on the harp;  there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.

 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.