The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

Your library is your portrait.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Originality is only variation.

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.