To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme ar... - Henry Ward Beecher

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

"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."

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

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