Every Event In This World

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

Much That We Call Evil Is Really Good In Disguises; And We Should Not Quarrel Rashly With Adversities Not Yet Understood, Nor Overlook The Mercies Often Bound Up In Them.

Enslave A Man And You Destroy His Ambition, His Enterprise, His Capacity. In The Constitution Of Human Nature, The Desire Of Bettering One's Condition Is The Mainspring Of Effort. The First Touch Of Slavery Snaps This Spring.

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.

He Who Cannot Resist Temptation Is Not A Man. Whoever Yields To Temptation Debases Himself With A Debasement From Which He Can Never Arise.