"Read much, but not too many books...." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“If better is possible, good is not enough”

“Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.”

“Taxes are indeed very heavy -We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness.Three times as much by our Pride.And four times as much by our Folly.”

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”

“In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.”

“When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.”

“Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.”

“A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.”

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