Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

Toleration made the world anti-Christian.

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

We write our own destiny

He took in the bubbles covering her and smiled. "I think that's enough.""Enough?""To get me clean." Taking one step forward, he slipped and slided up and down the length of her body.

Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.

When you discover the gift inside you, you have to submit yourself to the gift and improve it

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.