"Nicht alle sind Diebe die der Hund anbellt."

"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…"

"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."

"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."

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

"There are a great many doors open; but a door must be of a man's size or it is not meant for him."

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