As An Apple Is Not In Any

So, In The Infinitely Nobler Battle In Which You Are Engaged Against Error And Wrong, If Ever Repulsed Or Stricken Down, May You Always Be Solaced And Cheered By The Exulting Cry Of Triumph Over Some Abuse In Church Or State, Some Vice Or Folly In Society, Some False Opinion Or Cruelty Or Guilt Which You Have Overcome! And I Beseech You To Treasure Up In Your Hearts These My Parting Words: Be Ashamed To Die Until You Have Won Some Victory For Humanity.

Where A Love Of Natural Beauty Has Been Cultivated, All Nature Becomes A Stupendous Gallery, As Much Superior In Form And In Coloring To The Choicest Collections Of Human Art, As The Heavens Are Broader And Loftier Than The Louvre Or The Vatican.

The Devil Tempts Men Through Their Ambition, Their Cupidity, Or Their Appetite, Until He Comes To The Profane Swearer, Whom He Clutches Without Any Reward.

As Each Generation Comes Into The World Devoid Of Knowledge, Its First Duty Is To Obtain Possession Of The Stores Already Amassed. It Must Overtake Its Predecessors Before It Can Pass By Them.

Give Me A House Furnished With Books Rather Than Furniture! Both, If You Can, But Books At Any Rate!