"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."