We put things in order; God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west,— it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is. - Horace Mann

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. As Satan said, "Evil, be thou my good," so they say, "Darkness, be thou my light."

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! To spend several days in a friend’s house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind.