“Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!”

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”

“No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.”

“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen”

“Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.”

“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”