Our emotions are simply the vibrations of our soul.
"The moment fiction becomes mendacious it is bad, for it induces us to believe a lie.

Fiction purely as fiction must be innocent and beautiful, and its beauty must be more than skin deep.

Every field of art is a playground and we are extra pleased when the artist makes that field a gymnasium also." Cotton Mather's "Essay to do Good" read by the boy Franklin influenced the latter's whole life.

He advised everybody to read with a pen in hand and to make notes of all they read.
James T.Fields visited Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer, in jail.
Pomeroy told him he had been a great reader of "blood and thunder" stories; that he had read sixty dime novels about scalping and other bloody performances; and he thought there was no doubt that these books had put the horrible thoughts into his mind which led to his murderous acts.
Many a boy has gone to sea and become a rover for life under the influence of Marryat's novels.

Abbott's "Life of Napoleon," read at the age of seven years, sent one boy whom I knew to the army before he was fourteen.