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• When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite righ
  he generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness....
• The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. -- Theodore Parke
• One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fulle
• Books rule the world, or at least those nations which have a written language
  he others do not matter. -- Voltaire...
• Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?
  -- John Gay (1688-1732) -- Fables, Part i, The Shepherd and the Philosophe...
• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.
  -- Sir William Temple (1628-1699) -- Ancient and Modern Learning...
• There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. -- Thomas Fulle
• The most utterly lost of all days, is that in which you have not once laughed. -- Chamfo
• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...