Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.