"I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift"

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

"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"

"Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

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

"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present"

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

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time"

"Beware of the person of one book"