“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.”

“I want to speak to you about the treasures hidden in books; and about the way we find them, and the way we lose them.”

“A book worth reading is worth owning.”

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

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

“Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.”