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

"‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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