"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" — Henry Ward Beecher

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.