“Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.”

“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”

“A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.”

“He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.”

“There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.”

“Every cloud has a silver lining.”