“Without books, I would certainly die.”

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

“I cannot live without books.”

“I can not live without books.”

“I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.”

“All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.”

“I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.”