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

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

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.

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

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.