The act of creation is an act of love.
"To write is to wage war against forgetting."
The propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
A man's character is his fate.
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.