We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

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

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

I can not live with out books.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

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