"Nicht alle sind Diebe die der Hund anbellt."

"Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad when they touch the ground, but grow narrower as they reach the sky."

"Any law that takes hold of a man’s daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the communit…"

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

"Oh, tell me not that they are dead — that generous host, that airy army of invisible heroes. They hover as a cloud of…"

"Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes."

"Where is human nature so weak as in a book store?"

"The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a gener…"

"...no emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form."

"Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments."