“I buy all my socks with holes in them. Otherwise, how would I get my feet in them?”

“If I was aware I would have to tie laces I would not have been able to put my feet into socks.”

“If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.”

“I don't like socks or shoes. I really don't like socks but I wear them in my house because I can slide on my floor.”

“If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe,were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading,I would spurn them all.”

“I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one's while to buy them. Yet not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them, and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.”