Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Books are for nothing but to inspire"

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

"Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside."

"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."