You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
Deeds survive the doers.
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.