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

“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.”

“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.”

“The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief”

“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are”

“Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.”

“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”