“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.”

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

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

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

“Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.”

“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.”

“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.”