We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

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

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.