“Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”

“a good reader makes a good book”

“Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.”

“When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.”

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

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”

“I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”