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.

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

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

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

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

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Be contented, when you have got all you want.