Originality Is Independence, Not Rebellion; It Is

Literature Is At Once The Cause And The Effect Of Social Progress. It Deepens Our Natural Sensibilities, And Strengthens By Exercise Our Intellectual Capacities. It Stores Up The Accumulated Experience Of The Race, Connecting Past And Present Into A Conscious Unity; And With This Store It Feeds Successive Generations, To Be Fed In Turn By Them.

In Complex Trains Of Thought Signs Are Indispensable.

Love Is Blind; Couch Not His Eyes.

If You Feel Yourself To Be Above The Mass, Speak So As To Raise The Mass To The Height Of Your Argument.

Books Have Become Our Dearest Companions, Yielding Exquisite Delights And Inspiring Lofty Aims.