"He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself."

"The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to imitate him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue."

"He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian."

"And from the bliss of Eden brought no more But tears for such as there had lived before."

"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."