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

“A book worth reading is worth owning.”

“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.”

“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.”