“No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.”

“It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.”

“To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?”

“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.”

“What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.”

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

“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.”