The better the book the more room for the reader.

Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

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

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.