“Read to live, not live to read”

“Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.”

“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.”

“What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.”

“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”

“Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.”

“He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.”