“The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.”

“If this world affords true happiness it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years where the necessities of life come without severe strain where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.”

“The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.”

“The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.”

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”

“There are few finer or more innocent pleasures than talking books to one who knows. There may be joy in heaven- I am told there is- but the evidence is not conclusive, and I'll take mine here in my library.”

“Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.”

“In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.”

“My depth of purse is not so greatNor yet my bibliophilic greed,That merely buying doth elate:The books I buy I like to read:Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,Beneath a cloudless summer sky,By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,The books I read — I like to buy.”

“Who was it who said, "I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish?" Whoever it was, I agree with him.”

“It is really surprising how many and what pleasant things happen to me”