Books Are True Levelers. They Give To

To Do God's Will As Fast As It Is Made Known To Us, To Inquire Hourly -- I Had Almost Said Each Moment -- What He Requires Of Us, And To Leave Ourselves, Our Friends, And Every Interest At His Control, With A Cheerful Trust That The Path Which He Marks Out Leads To Our Perfection And To Himself, -- This Is At Once Our Duty And Happiness; And Why Will We Not Walk In The Plain, Simple Way?.

The Mind, In Proportion As It Is Cut Off From Free Communication With Nature, With Revelation, With God, With Itself, Loses Its Life, Just As The Body Droops When Debarred From The Air And The Cheering Light From Heaven.

Labor Is Discovered To Be The Grand Conqueror, Enriching And Building Up Nations More Surely Than The Proudest Battles.

Grandeur Of Character Lies Wholly In Force Of Soul, That Is, In The Force Of Thought, Moral Principle, And Love, And This May Be Found In The Humblest Condition Of Life

Great Minds Are To Make Others Great. Their Superiority Is To Be Used, Not To Break The Multitude To Intellectual Vassalage, Not To Establish Over Them A Spiritual Tyranny, But To Rouse Them From Lethargy, And To Aid Them To Judge For Themselves.