“I should recommend...keeping...a small memorandum-book in the breast-pocket, with its well-cut sheathed pencil, ready for notes on passing opportunities, but never being without this.”

“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.”

“What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.”

“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.”

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”