“In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.”

“In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.”

“Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.”

“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”

“A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.”

“Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.”

“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.”