What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.