A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.
Self-respect can be a extension of your ego or a priceless virtue.
The nice thing about self-love is that it’s hardly ever unrequited.
Self-respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
Not respecting yourself, is the same as committing suicide at a slow rate.
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”
He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read..