If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

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

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.

All students can learn.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.