“A book worth reading is worth owning.”

“If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.”

“A thing of worth is what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.”

“You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.”

“Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.”

“To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.”

“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”