“Books are a habit-forming drug.”

“Books are the training weights of the mind.”

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”

“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”

“I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”

“With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.”

“Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.”