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

“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.”

“The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.”

“‎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.”

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

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