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

“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.”

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

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

“‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.”

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