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

“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.”

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

“A book worth reading is worth owning.”

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

“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.”

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