“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”

“With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty, which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself everything but health, without which there is no happiness.”

“I cannot live without books.”

“I can not live without books.”

“Without books, I would certainly die.”

“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”

“[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.”