“My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.”

“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.”

“Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out arose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patientlyand the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.”

“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

“Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.”

“Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”