“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.