If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.