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

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

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

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

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

“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”

“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.”