"I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.


Up from Slavery: An Autobiography -Booker T. Washington

"By faith we are justified, by hope we endure to the end."


Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
-Martin Luther

"Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers."


The Man Who Would Be King -Rudyard Kipling

"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."


The Gift of the Magi
-O. Henry

"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."


The Mill on the Floss
-George Eliot

"People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep."


Ulysses
-James Joyce

"Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction."


Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Jules Verne

"All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom."


War and Peace
-Leo Tolstoy

"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world."


Anne of Green Gables
-Lucy Maud Montgomery

"It is not down in any map; true places never are. "


Moby-Dick
-Herman Melville

"Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!"


The Scarlet Letter
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity."


The Time Machine
-H.G. Wells

"We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up. "


Frankenstein
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley