“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main… and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”

“I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.”

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”

“Nothing should be treasured more highly than the value of the day.”

“There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.”

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”

“"Noelle's Treasure Tale" is based on the historical fact that three Spanish galleons full of treasure sunk off Florida's treasure coast and have never been recovered. I have a beach house on the Treasure Coast, and I'm out there with my snorkel looking for the treasure.”

“There is not much good spending twelve hours a day in a black hole in the ground all your life long if there’s nothing there, no secret, no treasure, nothing hidden.”

“You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.”

“We retain nothing, although we have conquered everything…France is chiefly, if not solely, to be dreaded by us in the light of a maritime and commercial power; and therefore by restoring to her all the valuable West India islands, and by our concessions in the Newfoundland fishery, we have given her the means of recovering her prodigious losses and of becoming once more formidable to us at sea…all the Spanish treasures and riches in America, lay at our mercy.”