O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.