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

“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.”

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”

“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 ...”