Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.
A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.
... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.
There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.
No man is lost while he yet lives.
Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.