Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of the…

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have r…

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love;