"To add a library to a house..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To live is to think.”

“It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.”

“The whole of virtue consists in its practice.”

“...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.”

“Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.”

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

“We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.”

“Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.”

“There is no history of how bad became better.”