“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

“The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.”

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

“Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.”

“The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them.”

“Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.”

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”