"[Among the books he chooses, a statesman]..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”

“It is better to be faithful than famous.”

“Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.”

“Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.”

“an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.”

“A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.”

“And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.”

“If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge.”

“Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.”