"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use"

"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

"Silence does not always mark wisdom"

"Years teach us more than books"