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

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

Originality is only variation.

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

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

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