“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“A man is known by the books he reads.”

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

“Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!”

“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”

“O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.”

“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”