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.

Your library is your portrait.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.