There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.