“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.”

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

“Never read a book that is not a year old.”

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

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

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

“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.”