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

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

“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.”

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

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

“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”

“Every artist dips his brush into his own soul.”