The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. - Rufus Choate

A book is the only immortality.

All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, — every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, — all change, — all permanence, — the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, — all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.