Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose names thereafter became illustrious. The thumbed volumes, now so precious to thousands, were compiled from personal experiences and owe their interest to touches of inspiration of which the writer was less author than amanuensis, himself the voiced word of life for all times.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.