“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party ...”

“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.”

“Books are the windows throughwhich the soul looks out.”

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.”

“Each book has a secret history of ways and means.”

“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”

“There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.”