Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher

"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."