“A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.”

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It is one of the necessities of a full life.”

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

“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.”

“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”

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

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