“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.”

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

“No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.”

“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ”

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

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

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