He Who Dethrones The Idea Of Law,

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

Benevolence Is A World Of Itself -- A World Which Mankind, As Yet, Have Hardly Begun To Explore. We Have, As It Were, Only Skirted Along Its Coasts For A Few Leagues, Without Penetrating The Recesses, Or Gathering The Riches Of Its Vast Interior.

A House Without Books Is Like A Room Without Windows. No Man Has A Right To Bring Up His Children Without Surrounding Them With Books, If He Has The Means To Buy Them. It Is A Wrong To His Family. He Cheats Them! Children Learn To Read By Being In The Presence Of Books. The Love Of Knowledge Comes With Reading And Grows Upon It.

It Would Be More Honourable To Our Distinguished Ancestors To Praise Them In Words Less, But In Deeds To Imitate Them More.

When A Child Can Be Brought To Tears, Not From Fear Of Punishment, But From Repentance For His Offence, He Needs No Chastisement. When The Tears Begin To Flow From Grief At One's Own Conduct, Be Sure There Is An Angel Nestling In The Bosom.