Experience Converts Us To Ourselves When Books

Creeds, Like Other Goods, Pass By Inheritance To Descendants.

The History Of Books Shows The Humblest Origin Of Some Of The Most Valued, Wrought As These Were Out Of Obscure Materials By Persons Whose Names Thereafter Became Illustrious. The Thumbed Volumes, Now So Precious To Thousands, Were Compiled From Personal Experiences And Owe Their Interest To Touches Of Inspiration Of Which The Writer Was Less Author Than Amanuensis, Himself The Voiced Word Of Life For All Times.

A Friendship Formed In Childhood, In Youth,--by Happy Accident At Any Stage Of Rising Manhood,--becomes The Genius That Rules The Rest Of Life.

Hold Fast, Therefore, O Circular Philosopher, To Thy Centre, And Drive The Globe Along Its Orbit By The Momentum Of Thy Thought.

One's Outlook Is A Part Of His Virtue.