"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

"Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."

"Simplify, simplify."

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and firing of the idea of the beautiful into us."