"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."

"He who marries a wife, and knows not how to rule her, is like him who takes a wild beast into his house, and knows not how to tame it."

"Thrice happy men, to whom the Gods have given Such means of bliss!"

"And the great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tow'r Went to the ground."

"Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death."