"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water"

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

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"Men are only as great as they are kind"

"He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex"

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

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do"

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization"