The reward of a thing well done is having done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."

"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."

"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."