The end of reading is not more books but more life.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Your library is your portrait.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Genius is initiative on fire.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it’s cowardice.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.