“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”

“The less of routine, the more of life.”

“Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.”

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”

“Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.”

“The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose names thereafter became illustrious. The thumbed volumes, now so precious to thousands, were compiled from personal experiences and owe their interest to touches of inspiration of which the writer was less author than amanuensis, himself the voiced word of life for all times.”

“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses.”