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

“Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.”

“The greatest university is a collection of books.”

“The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.”

“Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.”

“The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

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