I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

All books are either dreams or swords.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you.

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Every abridgement of a good book is a stupid abridgement.