No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

»In Büchern liegt die Seele aller gewesenen Zeit.«

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.