“Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.”

“Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.”

“Sleep Silence's child sweet father of soft rest Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.”

“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”

“He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.”

“He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.”

“We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?”

“Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.”

“I think what has this day brought me and what have I given it?”