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

"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"

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

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"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"

"Silence does not always mark wisdom"

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

"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

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